Anders Holm Quotes

I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?

I had a great time at Southampton and will always be thankful for that.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.

I'm very humble that people are accepting me, and they are proud that I'm their quarterback.

I'm grateful to have the things that I have, and I've learnt not to take anything for granted.

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

Going to UCLA was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

I love being a part of the family and all that. I can't complain about it.

I'm just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

I'm very thankful for what I have. I don't want to let anyone down.

I always have been grateful for the opportunity being in this country and to develop my game and go to college.

Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

After considering the ways that I might be able to help young college students, I decided to continue my support of the Light on the Hill scholarship. I would like to endorse this particular fund and encourage other former UNC students who have found success to reach back and assist the efforts of current and future Tar Heels.

If people are offering you help, swallow your pride and accept it because people who care about you want to help you.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.

You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.

It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.